Ōsaka archaeology /

"Ōsaka, now a city of 19 million inhabitants, was the economic powerhouse of Japan for two thousand years and remains an important international center. In an unusual archaeological treatment of regional long-term history, Richard Pearson proposes that a kind of entrepreneurial mentality motiva...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pearson, Richard J. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd., [2016]
Series:Archaeopress archaeology.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Ōsaka archaeology
  • The environment of the Ōsaka area and its changes
  • Early hunter gatherers: the Palaeolithic and Jōmon periods (ca. 20,000 BC to 950 BC)
  • The expansion of agrarian society, the Yayoi Period (950 BC to 240 AD)
  • Consolidation of political power and trade; the Kofun period (240 to 600 AD)
  • The Naniwa Port as a regional center; the Kodai (600 to 1185 AD) period
  • Ōsaka as a commerical center; the Chūsei period (ca 1185 to 1603 AD)
  • The beginnings of modern Ōsaka; the Kinsei period (ca 1603 to 1868 AD)
  • Ōsaka's special features.